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By: WordPress as Content Directory: Getting Somewhere « Disparate https://enkerli.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/selling-myself-long/#comment-98297
Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:29:31 +0000http://enkerli.wordpress.com/?p=915#comment-98297[…] In fact, getting the data right is made relatively easy by my background as an ethnographer with a strong interest in cognitive anthropology, ethnosemantics, folk taxonomies (aka "folksonomies"), ethnography of communication, and ethnoscience. In other words, "getting the data" is part of my expertise. […]
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By: RIEP11: Podfade and Future Plans « Rapport: The Informal Ethnographer Podcast https://enkerli.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/selling-myself-long/#comment-96149
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:44:46 +0000http://enkerli.wordpress.com/?p=915#comment-96149[…] I am to think more about my skills and expertise, I notice several things having to do with my work […]
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By: I Am Not a Guru « Disparate https://enkerli.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/selling-myself-long/#comment-62006
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:14:46 +0000http://enkerli.wordpress.com/?p=915#comment-62006[…] been on the record as saying that I have a hard time selling my expertise. It’s not through lack of self-confidence (though I did have problems with this in the past), […]
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By: enkerli https://enkerli.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/selling-myself-long/#comment-50848
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:04:16 +0000http://enkerli.wordpress.com/?p=915#comment-50848BTW, you can subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this specific post. It works in Google Reader for me (just by clicking on the “You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.” in that big box below my post). But you could also paste the following URL in Bloglines or Google Reader, from your account:https://enkerli.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/selling-myself-long/feed/
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By: enkerli https://enkerli.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/selling-myself-long/#comment-50846
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:52:18 +0000http://enkerli.wordpress.com/?p=915#comment-50846@Meri
Good one! 😉

In Bloglines, once you’re in your account, click on the “Add” button in the “Feeds” tab (left-hand sidebar). Enter the following link in the “Blog or Feed URL” field (in the middle of the main frame, on the right) and press the “Subscribe” button: https://enkerli.wordpress.com/feed/

In Google Reader, if you have your browser set to send RSS feeds to Google Reader directly, you can click on the RSS icon in the address bar. As long as you’re already registered in your Google account, it should take you to a page where you can choose to add this same feed to either your Google Homepage or to Google Reader. Alternatively, if you go to Google Reader directly (reader.google.com), you can click on “Add Subscription” (in a green box in the left-hand sidebar, between the “Home” box which has “Friends’ Shared Items” and the box with all your current subscriptions). You then see a box to enter search terms or feed URL. Paste that same URL and click the “Add” button.https://enkerli.wordpress.com/feed/
If you enter my last name (Enkerli) instead of that URL, you’re taken to a page which lists a few of my RSS feeds, with the main feed for this blog repeated as the first few items. You can click the “Subscribe” button on any of those items to subscribe to my blog’s RSS feed.

If none of this works, feel free to ask me (tell me which browser you’re using). My impression is that you were probably using another URL as the RSS feed, possibly because of your browser. But I can confirm that this URL works directly in Firefox 3 (it’s the one in the address bar) and does work in both Bloglines and Google Reader. There could conceivably be another issue, but that would require a tad bit of simple troubleshooting.

Actually, this RSS issue isn’t a bad example of some of the things I was talking about in this post.
For one thing, this is exactly the kind of “service” I would feel weird charging for. Providing information on how to subscribe to my very own blog isn’t something I could get paid to do. Now, if there really is troubleshooting to be done (as in, the link still doesn’t work in Bloglines and/or Google Reader on your end), I can certainly help and it could transform into more of a “task” I could potentially get paid for.
I did do tech support on many occasions, both informally (with colleagues and friends) and semi-formally (as a graduate assistant). I’m not the best troubleshooter in the world because I’m not a coder, but I’m fairly efficient at most common problems. Because I’ve had them myself. Personal experience as expertise.
So, yes, I could “teach” some things about feedreading and RSS support.

The reason I listed RSS as part of my expertise is not that I’m an RSS expert or that I have in-depth expertise of RSS details. In fact, though I’ve seen the specs, I haven’t created RSS feeds from scratch. My listing RSS as part of my expertise has to do with the fact that understanding RSS seems to me to be key in terms of grokking what O’Reilly called “Web 2.0.” When presenting online tools to fellow teachers, I usually try to get them to understand some RSS principles and advantages.
With several of the tools I listed, I can easily qualify myself as a power user. With others, I have enough of a background to transform myself into a power user if I need to. With RSS, it’s more a question of perspective. I have things to share about RSS and I do think I grok what RSS implies.
As for the differences between RSS versions, Atom, etc. I see why it could be relevant in terms of implementation, but I use “RSS feeds” to mean use of feeds in general. In blogs, podcasts, social networks, and mashups.

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By: Meri Walker https://enkerli.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/selling-myself-long/#comment-50845
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:16:22 +0000http://enkerli.wordpress.com/?p=915#comment-50845I see one of your areas of expertise is working with RSS feeds. I can’t seem to get your RSS link here to link to my Bloglines or Google Reader. Want to teach me how to do that?
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By: enkerli https://enkerli.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/selling-myself-long/#comment-50842
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:19:23 +0000http://enkerli.wordpress.com/?p=915#comment-50842@Meri
Thanks a lot for the elaborate and thoughtful comment. You have, in fact, been instrumental in this reflection but it actually started before I heard of your work.
I don’t do bets either but I do think I’ll be doing something in terms of monetizing my expertise online. I just wish it didn’t require so much effort. After all, I am a cat.
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By: Meri Walker https://enkerli.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/selling-myself-long/#comment-50839
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:55:44 +0000http://enkerli.wordpress.com/?p=915#comment-50839Wow, Alexandre! You said you were blogging hard about your internal conversation and you weren’t kidding! Thanks so much for spreading the word about my work. I truly appreciate your clarity and the authenticity of your inquiry. You have articulated so many of the obstacles that are keeping people teaching for a paycheck instead of for a living! I don’t know who else is involved in this conversation, but you’re adding a great deal of value to it right here…I will start tracking it now out here in your blog (in addition to our dialogue inside LearnHub) on the chance that I can add anything of value myself.

In my own migration from thinking of myself as just a “teacher” to thinking about what I do as my “teaching business,” I have wrestled with every one of the concepts you’ve named here. And the struggle was deep in consciousness, not up at the surface. Sounds like you’re in that terrain right now. I only make quarter bets in my life, so I won’t wager on who’s going to win ;-). I’m only an expert on wagering passion, not money. But, let’s just say, I have a great deal of empathy for what’s going on in your psyche… and I want to really acknowledge the courage it takes to make your internal dialogue so “public.” You’re teaching THIS subject – with great passion and I’m loving your performance!